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Originally Posted by jag  this thread made me break out my old sextant to do a sun shot....
my new handle may be celestial navigators do it with heavenly bodies... |
Had the opp to meet 3 of the Airplane. Skip Spence the drummer in Mill Valley at a party. Met Jorma Kaukonen up in Campbell River on Quadra Island (BC) in the 70's. Was really high on LSD and he came over to our A-frame and gave an impromtu exhibition of the songs he did on 12-string (WOW). It was like being in the studio when they recorded them. And lived next door to the first lead singer, Signe Anderson, in Portland. On the album "Jefferson Airplane Takes Off" where they're all standing around the bi-plane, she's wearing a pea-coat to hide her being 8/mos pregnant, with her daughter. She actually got me all their autographs on that album when she went down to Cisco for a legal meet over a royalty battle w/Marty Balin.
In the Haight (and NYC in the old days), people were very approachable .. unlike today.